When Nicholas opened his eyes for the second time in this world he groaned. He chuckled when he realized the memorable position that he’s in yet again. He thinks to what happened before he passed and realized he may have overextended himself when multiplying his strength and regeneration. Nicholas knows he’ll have to increase his abilities in shorter bursts from now on to see his limits.
Nicholas gazes into the familiar canopy however, the trees seem much more beautiful than when he first woke up in this world. Much much more beautiful, suspiciously beautiful in fact. Nicholas rubs his eyes a few times to check if he was experiencing an illusion, but nothing changes.
“My eyesight is brilliant!” Exclaimed Nicholas when he realizes that his eyesight is almost supernaturally powerful.
Nicholas jumps up in a stupor of excitement but something peculiar happens, the once towering trees quickly shrink in size and eventually they are like tiny toothpicks burrowed in the ground. He quickly realizes that instead of the trees shrinking, he has been propelled tens of hundreds of feet into the sky. The age old saying ‘what comes up must come down,’ is quickly put into practice when Nicholas is sent careening down and quickly gains terminal velocity. He creates a massive explosion breaking multiple trees and creating a massive noise that can be heard throughout the forest.
A distant explosion wakes the entire forest and shortly after a massive furry creature the size of a two story building also awakes and responds with a roar.
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A laugh and then a roar is heard after Nicholas’ impact into the earth. Nicholas scurries out of his man sized crater and barren field, ignoring the amazement of his strength and corresponding jump height when he hears a roar that sounds like a lion if it had vocal chords as thick as a finger. Following the roar Nicholas hears a large galloping that is steadily getting closer. Frightened out if his mind he grips onto a nearby tree that surprisingly is still intact and pulls it out with little strain. Without being amazed by his inhumane feat, Nicholas aims the tip of the resilient seeming tree at the source of his fear.
“Sh-sh-sh-it.” Nicholas stutters out, when he gazes in amazement at the massive bear standing on two legs in front of him. The bear has a massive stature standing four times taller than Nicholas’ six and a half feet. Calling it a massive bear in foresight is an understatement with paws the size of Nicholas’ torso. It has a deathly black color with yellow eyes capable of piercing through souls and frightening any man. Nicholas is not being excluded of course, as shown by his jittering knees, but after a moment of extreme tension he realizes his fear is unfounded with his strength and focuses on the upcoming fight.
The bear lands on its front legs and charges towards Nicholas. Nicholas jumps up this time without exerting as much strength, learning from his mistake that attracted this gargantuan creature in the first place. He pulls back his arm in preparation of a spear throw towards the bear, when he notices that the bear has a scar on its chest that exposes its dark fur. Deciding to be better safe than sorry Nicholas launches his makeshift tree spear at the bear in an attempt to incapacitate it.
However the bear bats the tree out of the air with extreme power, stares at Nicholas and with a predatorial huff charges once again.